"No problem. Let go of your mother, and I'll carry you to get your favorite roast chicken," Chu Hengyuan gently stroked the side of the little girl's face.
Rong Lan stared at Chu Hengyuan for a few seconds, frowned, then reached out and pinched his face. "Who are you..."
Chu Hengyuan turned his head to glance at the scattered wine bottles on the ground and counted them. Just how much had his little girl drunk? She was so drunk that she couldn't even recognize who he was.
He grabbed her restless little paw. "I'm Chu Hengyuan."
She had already let go of one hand. As long as he could coax her to move the other hand away from his mother, he would succeed.
"Don't go with men! All men are big liars!" As if sensing that the person hanging on her was about to abandon her for the roast chicken, Zhen Rui tightened her embrace on Rong Lan, determined not to let go.
Chu Hengyuan twitched the corner of his mouth and glanced at his helpless father. Apart from anything else, it was the first time in so many years that he had seen his mother act drunk. But what did it mean for her to hold his little wife while drunk?
"Father, quickly get mother to let go. Lanlan already wants to go with me. It's just that mother refuses to return Lanlan to me now." If he wasn't afraid of hurting his little girl, he would even want to forcefully pull her out of his mother's embrace.
It was good that they could get along well, but there was no need to get this close.
Father Chu coughed lightly, not knowing how to speak. Every time the words of consolation reached his lips, he swallowed them back. "Since you can make Rong Lan let go, why don't you say something to make your mother let go too?"
Chu Hengyuan only felt a headache coming on. "I lured Lanlan with her favorite things. Father, just mention something mother likes."
Father Chu still felt unable to open his mouth.
This awkward situation persisted for quite a while. Chu Hengyuan couldn't bear it any longer. "Lanlan, besides roast chicken, there's also fried chicken, curry chicken drumsticks, braised chicken drumsticks, pan - fried chicken breasts, Coke chicken wings..."
"As long as you come with me, all these will be yours!"
He didn't believe that he couldn't make Rong Lan actively abandon his mother and throw herself into his arms like this.
Rong Lan was in a daze. Hearing the series of dish names, she sniffed, as if she could already smell the aroma of chicken.
She let go of the hand holding Zhen Rui, patted Zhen Rui on the shoulder, and tried hard to keep a straight face to make her words more convincing. "You, you let go of me first. I'm going for a midnight snack. Next time, next time I'll drink with you again!"
Zhen Rui frowned and looked at Rong Lan. "You, you really want to go with a... scumbag?"
Chu Hengyuan, who was called a scumbag, rubbed his forehead. They said that what a person said when drunk was the most truthful. So in his mother's eyes, he was a scumbag?
Rong Lan looked at Zhen Rui, then turned to look at Chu Hengyuan. In the end, she still opened her arms towards Chu Hengyuan, asking to be carried. "He, he's not a scumbag. He's my elder brother, and he's mine!"
The little girl, who was so drunk that she could hardly speak coherently, was rarely serious.
Chu Hengyuan let out a sigh of relief, wrapped his arms around the little girl who was pouting and acting coquettishly, and carried her away from his mother's embrace. "Lanlan is right. I'm yours."
Seeing the delighted look on Chu Hengyuan's face, Father Chu felt extremely jealous. He grabbed his wife who was about to fight with his son for the girl. "Hurry up and take her far away!"
Chu Hengyuan supported his little girl's back with one hand and hugged her behind the knees with the other, easily picking her up. "I'll go back first."
After saying that, he turned around and left, afraid that his mother would catch up with him and fight for the girl.
Unexpectedly, just as he took two or three steps, he heard a voice from behind. "Hengyuan, do you want the Chu Group?"
He stopped in his tracks but didn't turn back. "If I say I do, will you give me the Chu Group?"
"If you say you do, I can give you the Chu Group. You can start working at the Chu Group next week. I'll arrange a position for you higher than Xiaochuan's."
Chu Hengyuan sneered lightly, lowered his head and kissed the forehead of the little girl in his arms. "It's a pity. I don't want it."
What was so good about the Chu Group?
Although working at the Chu Group could infuriate Chu Chuan, he still preferred his current life.
After saying that, without waiting for the person behind to continue speaking, he quickly left with Rong Lan in his arms.
As soon as he entered the room, before Chu Hengyuan could close the door, the little girl, who had been extremely well - behaved just now, slapped him on the face. "Scumbag!"
Chu Hengyuan: "???"
Didn't his little girl just say that 'he's not a scumbag, he's her elder brother'? How long had it been? And she had already turned against him?
Although her slap was so light that it didn't hurt at all, he still felt hurt because he had been slapped for no reason.
Chu Hengyuan closed the door sideways and retaliatorily threw the little girl onto the bed. "I'm going to be angry. Lanlan actually dared to call me a scumbag?"
He used a skillful force when throwing her, so he didn't hurt the little girl. Rong Lan turned over and sat up, sitting cross - legged. She even burped. "You are a scumbag!"
She angrily slapped the quilt. Where Chu Hengyuan couldn't see, her ears perked up, and the fur on her ears fluffed up slightly.
"You clearly have someone you like. How could you marry someone else for the so - called family mission!"
After hearing this, Chu Hengyuan roughly understood that the 'scumbag' she was scolding was his father. After all, he had never married someone else when he had someone he liked.
He sat down on the sofa, glanced at the little puppet cat sleeping soundly without a care in the world, and then focused all his attention on the little girl who was seriously getting angry.
"You're right. Scumbag!" he echoed her.
Someone responding to her words, the little fox twitched her ears and continued scolding. "You married a well - matched wife and cut off all ties with the person you liked back then. That was a good thing. But! But how could you be so stupid as to find a so - called substitute! You, you even had an affair during your marriage! You even had a child with your mistress outside!!!"
Chu Hengyuan knew about his father's affair, but what did 'substitute' mean?
He hugged a pillow, propped his elbows on the pillow, and looked at his little girl curiously, waiting for her to continue the story.
He didn't expect that after his mother got drunk, she had told the little girl so many things. His mother would probably regret it. The little girl had a good memory. Even though she was so drunk that she couldn't recognize people, she could still remember such things.
Even he didn't know about these things.
"You! Don't you feel disgusted? That substitute looks like the person you like, so... so that child also looks like the person you like! Do you think the person you like will like that child?! How, how is that possible! If it were me, I would feel disgusted and uncomfortable! Do you think you can make up for it by being nice to her now?! You're dreaming!"
She angrily slapped the quilt again.
Chu Hengyuan raised his eyebrows.
Well, now he knew one more secret.